It doesn't matter what brilliant ground level people want if they don't get to do anything about it because of pressure from management. I have seen this first

It doesn't matter what brilliant ground level people want if they don't get to do anything about it because of pressure from management. I have seen this first-hand. I bet you have too. A brilliant user friendly idea stays at the bottom of the product log, as middle and upper management product asks get piled on top of it, pushing it deeper and deeper. Sure, I guess you could donate the small amount of free time you get to your employer and do it after work, but I can't think of anything more demotivating than working for free for a company with revenue in the hundreds of millions.